On 11/14/17 9:18 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > Arkadi says: > > Many of the ASIC's internal resources are limited and are shared between > several hardware procedures. For example, unified hash-based memory can > be used for many lookup purposes, like FDB and LPM. In many cases the user > can provide a partitioning scheme for such a resource in order to perform > fine tuning for his application. In many cases after setting the > partitioning of the resource driver reload is needed. This patchset add > support for hot reset of the driver. > > Such an abstraction can be coupled with devlink's dpipe interface, which > models the ASIC's pipeline as an graph of match/action tables. By modeling > the hardware resource object, and by coupling it to several dpipe tables, > further visibility can be achieved in order to debug ASIC-wide issues. > > The proposed interface will provide the user the ability to understand the > limitations of the hardware, and receive notification regarding its occupancy. > Furthermore, monitoring the resource occupancy can be done in real-time and > can be useful in many cases. > > Userspace part prototype can be found at https://github.com/arkadis/iproute2/ > at resource_dev branch. >
Please add the example user commands from the above to this cover-letter. Makes easier to understand the intentions of this patch set from a user perspective.
